Eines der am häufigsten genannten Vorschläge in der Diskussion um die Deregulierung des Arbeitsmarktes ist die Lockerung des Kündigungsschutzgesetzes (KSchG). Für kleine Unternehmen stellt, so die Hypothese, der Schwellenwert im Kündigungsschutzgesetz ein Einstellungshindernis dar, da sie...

Die Evaluation von Qualifizierungsmaßnahmen insbesondere der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren große Aufmerksamkeit erfahren. Untersuchungen betrieblicher Weiterbildung brachten dabei ermutigende Ergebnisse hinsichtlich Beschäftigungsstabilität und...

The evaluation of training programs especially of active labour market programs has attracted a lot of attention the last couple of years. In particular, analyses of on-the-job training have come up with encouraging results regarding job stability and reemployment chances after a preceding job...

The liberalisation of job protection is an often mentioned proposal to increase labour market flexibility. It is applied on businesses which exceed a certain limit of employees. The thesis we want to examine is that this limit detains small businesses from hiring more employees. Changes in this...

One of the proposals most frequently raised to increase flexibility of the German labour market is the liberalization of the job protection law. It applies only to those firms employing a more than a cut-off number of employees. Thus, firms just above the cut-off face considerably higher...

This paper is concerned with establishing the data base that is necessary to analyse the "double burden" argument which has been used to reject a sweeping reform of the German old-age pension system. We show that this argument does not hold if the existing pay-as-you-go system were to be...

A frequently-raised proposal in aid of increasing the flexibility of the German labour market, is the liberalisation of the job protection law. This law applies to those establishments with more than a specified cut-off number of employees. The argument examined in this paper is that this...

Eines der am häufigsten genannten Vorschläge in der Diskussion um die Deregulierung des Arbeitsmarktes ist die Lockerung des Kündigungsschutzgesetzes (KSchG). Für kleine Unternehmen stellt, so die Hypothese, der Schwellenwert im Kündigungs schutzgesetz ein Einstellungshindernis dar, da sie...

One proposal frequently raised to increase flexibility of the German labour market is the liberalization of the job protection law. It applies to those establishments with more than a cut-off number of employees. The argument examined in this paper is that this step in legal regulation hinders...